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Altered Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis Underlying Enhanced Glutamatergic Transmission in Striatal-Enriched Tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP) Knockout Mice.
Molecular neurobiology - 1 Oct 2018
Bosco Federica, Valente Pierluigi, Milanese Marco, Piccini Alessandra, Messa Mirko, Bonanno Giambattista, Lombroso Paul, Baldelli Pietro, Benfenati Fabio, Giovedì Silvia
Abstract excerpt
The striatal-enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase (STEP) is a brain-specific phosphatase involved in synaptic transmission. The current hypothesis on STEP function holds that it opposes synaptic strengthening by dephosphorylating and inactivating key neuronal proteins involved in synaptic plasticity and intracellular signaling, such as the MAP kinases ERK1/2 and p38, as well as the tyrosine kinase Fyn. Although...
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